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If Mercury is close to the other planets, it may be beneficial to get to there rather than to Mars.

If you could travel to planets as the light flies, perhaps. What matters when traveling is not the straight line distance, it's the delta-v. Mars is much closer in delta-v to earth, thus is it easier to get to. Venus is the closest planet in delta-v, so it's the easiest to travel to.

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Israel has to launch to the west instead of the east which makes everything a lot harder. They'd probably need a Saturn V size rocket to just _land_ something on the moon.

Nobody would launch west into orbit, they'd just delay the tilt maneuver to clear the 100 km line to space within the launch area and the penalty wouldn't be that big. You can check out the launch profile here of the ORBCOMM-2 launch where the first stage went to about 75 km altitude roughly 37 km east of the launch site. The first stage returned to the landing site (RTLS), the second stage probably cleared the Karman line somewhere around 50 km east. At its widest Israel is 114 km wide, so while they'd have to launch over land and risk harm to the population below it's absolutely doable. Now weather it's a good idea for Israel to launch rockets from the near the Egyptian border to near the Iraqi/Syrian border is a different matter entirely.

It already has. There's documented proof of it.

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It's a WWII game. Why the heck would it have women soldiers with cybernetic prosthetics in it ?

There were female soldiers on both the Russian side and the in french resistance. As for the "cybernetic prosthetic" it's a real prosthetic from the time period. No "cybernetics" involved.

I'm assuming the GP is making a reference to Elsagate. (Infographic)

The best way to describe it is extreme shock content, except intentionally aimed at audiences too young to understand parody and satire. The sheer weirdness of the worst content defies all logical explanation.

It actually looked like an electric-blue mushroom cloud for a little while...

https://preview.redd.it/p3kzl6...

Virgin has already quietly announced plans for point to point suborbital flights, connecting cities in a fraction of the current travel time. As Virgin Galactic flight hardware is proven and deployed around the world we are opening up humanity to the biggest increase in travel speed since the advent of jet powered aircraft. Truly an exciting time to be alive!

Because....? If I had a private jet I'd get a lot faster to where I was going too. Despite all the talk of making space "affordable", compared to the airplanes they're still gold plated. A sub-orbital rocket going half way across the Earth will require about 7.9 km/s delta-v, going to orbit is 9.3-10 km/s. Putting that into the rocket equation says you can bring about twice as much payload to fuel compared to LEO. So what's the cost to orbit today? $62 million / 22800 kg = ~$2700/kg for an F9, if you take half that a 75 kg person is still looking at $100k for a ticket if we ignore seats, life support systems and so on. Of course to just reach space you just need to go 1.4 km/s straight up - but then you're coming straight down.

You can look at this graphic to see how a SpaceX first stage goes on a suborbital trajectory, it'll go 7-800 kilometers in a ballistic path. This capture maybe gives you a better sense of scale, you can see stage one returning to earth on the left right off the coast. To actually go places like Europe or Asia it'd have to make a much, much bigger and more expensive arc. And when you consider that you can get anywhere in the world in less than a day, is that one day saved worth tens of thousands of dollars? Travel by rocket is not for the common man nor the middle class, it's for the 0.01% who'd rather have an extra day on their yacht.

https://i.redd.it/38bkcpwcvw12...

Yeah, we can ship a few people someplace far away AKA Captain Cook (or was that Captain Bligh?) but for having people living in Tombstone, Arizona, Mars is unbelievable, never mind having a McD, WalM, or Micky there to visit when you're bored.

Well, even in his most generous projections of massive reuse at scale in the far future Musk said "The cost of moving to Mars ultimately could drop below $100,000" which is a bit outside my budget for a burger and it's for a one way trip. So yeah the people who expect warp drive-like bouncing around the Solar system have watched too much sci-fi. Same with the people thinking we have the capability of terraforming Mars.

That said, getting to LEO is a lot of the effort to get into space and the difference between TLI and going to other planets even smaller. According to this chart

Earth to LEO: 9.4 km/s
Earth to TLI: 9.4 + 2.44 + 0.68 km/s = 12.5 km/s
Earth to Moon: 12.5 + 0.14 + 0.68 + 1.73 = 15.1 km/s
Earth to Mars: 12.5 + 0.09 + 0.39 + 0.67 + 0.34 + 0.4 + 0.7 + 3.8 = 18.9 km/s

Towards Mars you can use aerobraking, which puts the rocket requirements more in the ballpark of the Moon. Granted getting off Mars again is quite a bit harder but it's not some impossible goal from a technological point of view with an Apollo 2 program and a Saturn VI. The challenge is finding some economically viable path to make it happen, but with SpaceX aiming for the third launch of a Block 5 rocket this year they've hopefully turned the corner on that and the 4th and 5th is not that far behind. And 2019 will hopefully see a crew rating of the F9 too.

China alone is responsible for more than 1/2 of the plastic in the oceans
As shown by Edgar, Americans are #16 in 2016. Not even close to the top of the most CO2 per capita. In fact, Americans went from #7 in 2000 with more than 20 tonnes to #16, in 2016 with 15.5 tonnes.
However, Chinese went from near the bottom, i.e. 100-150, in 1990 with 1.97 tonnes, to #41 in 2016 with 7.4 tonnes
By end of 2018, you Chinese should be somewhere in the upper 20s, while Americans will likely be in the lower 20.

Even better, would be a map showing which nations are actually taking CO2 serious and doing something about it.
Here is the growth/decline of CO2 per capita from 1990-2016. We see Chinese emissions grew by 5-10 tonnes per capita, while Americans fell by 1-5 tonnes per capita.

Caffeinated Bacon(Crimson Tsunami) quit lying you bloody git.

Here is a list of countries that require a valid voter ID to cast a vote on election day.

Only ONE party disapproves of measures to make our elections secure. Voter ID is NOT a function of America's "racist past" every country that's not a dictatorship has some form of assuring that the person voting is entitled to. EVERY COUNTRY.

If those that demand no Voter Identification were concerned for the poor, they'd facilitate the acquisition of ID, not seek ways to avoid it. After all, what's the best job you ever had where you didn't need to identify yourself?

NAACP requires photo ID to attend anti-voter-ID protest march

You mean this? https://i.redd.it/hlfo7oahjvrz...

CNN? The Clinton News Network? The network that sees its role as not reporting the news, but biasing the world to its advantage? You serious? Saying CNN is unbiased is ludicrous and so easily disproven.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions.

CNN cropped out the ISIS finger salute and Jihad scarf from the Fort Lauderdale attacker's picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...">CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton

CNN glorifying a killer for ratings: 30 second Video: Sheriff asks media not to report Oregon shooter's name, CNN ignores request and does it anyway, including publishing his social media comments. (Note: video was edited by uploader to censor CNN's publishing of the shooter's name)
It's worth it to watch that clip a few times. It's so insane that we allow this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...">Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

CNN deceptively edited a rioter's speech. What she did was call for the rioters to move their rioting.
Burnin down shit ain't going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don't wear it. But we need it.
Citation: https://twitter.com/DeeconX/st...
CNN apology: "We shorthanded sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere." Unintentionally my ass.

CNN's Reza Aslan wishing rape on someone.

CNN gets caught red-handed telling their focus group what to say

CNN conducts fake interview in parking lot

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/undercover-video-cnn-producer-admits-trump-russia-narrative-mostly-bullst/

Top 10 Times CNN Reported Fake News

CNN? The Clinton News Network? The network that sees its role as not reporting the news, but biasing the world to its advantage? You serious? Saying CNN is unbiased is ludicrous and so easily disproven.

Here's CNN getting caught red-handed planting debate questions.

CNN cropped out the ISIS finger salute and Jihad scarf from the Fort Lauderdale attacker's picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...">CNN cuts off congressman when he mentions Wikileaks with Clinton

CNN glorifying a killer for ratings: 30 second Video: Sheriff asks media not to report Oregon shooter's name, CNN ignores request and does it anyway, including publishing his social media comments. (Note: video was edited by uploader to censor CNN's publishing of the shooter's name)
It's worth it to watch that clip a few times. It's so insane that we allow this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...">Compilation of CNN & MSNBC Cutting Guests Mics to Protect Hillary Clinton

CNN deceptively edited a rioter's speech. What she did was call for the rioters to move their rioting.
Burnin down shit ain't going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don't wear it. But we need it.
Citation: https://twitter.com/DeeconX/st...
CNN apology: "We shorthanded sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere." Unintentionally my ass.

CNN's Reza Aslan wishing rape on someone.

CNN gets caught red-handed telling their focus group what to say

CNN conducts fake interview in parking lot

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/undercover-video-cnn-producer-admits-trump-russia-narrative-mostly-bullst/

Top 10 Times CNN Reported Fake News

Already done: https://i.redd.it/tfocl4lxnojy... "Trojan Horse - Arend Van Damn"

najajomo trolled:

Going from the image, they could also provide a water transportation system, that way the women wouldn't have to walk ten miles a day with a water bucket on their head. But I guess the men have better things to spend their money on, like $3,000 on a pair of shoes.

Nice little conflation you have there, pal. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Like someone pointing out that you're conflating rural women in Zimbabwe carrying water back to their villages with men in the Republic of the Congo (more specifically, in Brazzaville, its capitol, which is a distinctly urban environment with a functioning municipal water system) who identify with a fashion-centered lifestyle called "La Sape". The two images have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. In fact, they were taken on opposite sides of the continent.

As for your suggestion that the Skysource/Skywater Alliance "could also provide a water transportation system" so the women in the image from Zimbabwe could be spared a 10-mile daily walk? It's also blatant trolling.

Your "water transportation system" would be hideously expensive to construct, even if it had to serve just one village located five miles from the water collection site, because everything needed to build it would have to be choppered in. Rural Zimbabwe has essentially zero infrastructure. There's no paved roads, no housing for construction workers, no local sources of water-grade pipe, and no source of skilled labor. Hell, I doubt there's so much as a screwdriver within 5 miles of the installation, much less a pipe wrench.

To distribute water from it to every village within that radius would be way, WAY more expensive. Where, exactly, is that money supposed to come from? The X-Prize payout wouldn't even cover the expense of piping water to a single village, much less dozens of them. The Zimbabwean government is one of the most institutionally-corrupt bureaucracies on the planet, and it rules over one of the poorest countries in the world. As a result, the Zimbabwean dollar has been experiencing Weimar Republic-level hyperinflation for decades now (for which you can thank Robert Mugabe, who was recently deposed from his position as president-for-life), so that rules out the national government as a source. (True fact: somewhere around here I have a Zimbabwean $1 billion coin that was issued back in the 20th century. Its current value is well south of one penny in U.S. money. The Zimbabwean government stopped issuing them after the value of their dollar fell so far that those coins became more valuable as metal than their face value.)

Here's a thought: why don't you get the fuck out of your mother's basement, go to Zimbabwe, and build that "water transportation system" yourself ... ?

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Going from the image, they could also provide a water transportation system, that way the women wouldn't have to walk ten miles a day with a water bucket on their head. But I guess the men have better things to spend their money on, like $3,000 on a pair of shoes.

Here is all the water on earth in a sphere.

You mean data like this?

It's hard to pull % of from that... but that actually looks like less than 10% overlap there. Besides a few outliers there are two separate bands of strength there. (for that one particular test there).

You mean data like this?

One more thing, here's a letter signed by several classmates explaining the "Devil's Triangle" game that became so infamous. It's funny how he can find people to corroborate his statements and explain this stuff while absolutely none of the people she placed at the party, including her life-long friend, knows anything about it.

And that includes her--she remembers so much trivial stuff, but all the important facts, that if actually corroborated would prove her story, are fuzzy. Funny how that works. It's also funny how the story changes every time facts come out that it couldn't have happened the way she remembered it before. You can see it on her own damned note from the polygraph test, where she crossed out some words that had become inconvenient because Brett wasn't *there* in the mid-80s, only to find out that the Safeway wasn't there in 1982.

Given that the very few details she claims to remember are clearly false, how are we supposed to believe any part of this story?

At least get the new Apple Watch

Don't get just one, get two! Love that blocky look.

CNN deceptively edited a rioter's speech. What she did was call for the rioters to move their rioting.

> Burnin down shit ain't going to help nothin! Y'all burnin' down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don't wear it. But we need it.

Citation: https://twitter.com/DeeconX/st...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8Cn6boqcA

CNN apology:

> We shorthanded sister's quote. Unintentionally gave the impression she was calling for peace everywhere.

Unintentionally my ass.

CNN Cuts Live Interview When Facts About Refugees Are Brought Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fake protest staged by CNN film crew at London Bridge terrorist attack scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN gets caught red-handed telling their focus group what to say https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN conducts fake interview in parking lot https://www.theatlantic.com/na...

Top 10 Times CNN Reported Fake News https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

CNN reporter's response when asked why CNN hadn't corrected false gun article: "not playing your game man." http://thefederalist.com/2017/...

CNN threatens man into silence with threats of doxxing https://i.redd.it/jyw161j3wntz...

CNN on family leave before and after Trump backed it https://imgoat.com/thumb/e296a...

Media shows why it's so mistrusted after falsified Trump fish-feeding 'story' http://thehill.com/opinion/whi...
CNN: Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond

The CNN example includes edited video that zooms in on Trump to only show his face and prevents the viewer from seeing what Japanese Prime Minister Abe was doing at a key point of the short event.

Why was Abe edited out? Perhaps because he took his entire box of fish food and dumped it into the pond. Trump followed Abe's lead and did the same seconds later.

But with the zoom edit cutting Abe out, the viewer or reader - with an assist from the caption Â-- is led to believe only Trump dumped his box. The media was not only blatantly overt, but intentional in its deception.

The greatest danger to our nation comes from a free press that chooses sides in the political process. And that has openly and unapologetically taken place.

Because when you fuck with people, they often have the desire to fuck with you right back. Preferably in the exact same way you did to them. This is typically known as "the cycle of violence".

For example, did you know the US meddled in the 1996 Russian election to get Yeltsin re-elected? It's absolutely true, a lot of people were proud of it at the time and it wasn't a secret. He was in fifth place with ratings in the single digits before the Americans got involved. This was disastrous for Russia, as the oligarchs and Western neo-liberal economists made a mess of things. This started the chain of events that led directly to Putin seizing power four years later. Action, reaction.

You know how Russia ended up with Putin? Remember Yeltsin? Remember how we interfered with the 1996 Russian election and altered the result? Yeltsin was in the single digits before the Americans got involved.

You know what happened next? The US financial "experts" pushed Yeltsin to introduce neo-liberal shock therapy economics to the new Russian Federation. Ended up crashing the economy and leaving more in poverty then ever before. The number of people living in poverty in the former Soviet Republics rose from 14 million in 1989 to 147 million in 1998. As a result of the 1998 financial collapse and the devaluation of the ruble, the life savings of tens of millions of Russian families disappeared overnight. In the period from 1992 to 1998 Russia's GDP fell by half - something that did not happen even under during the German invasion in the Second World War.

Under Yeltsin's tenure, the death rate in Russia reached wartime levels. Accidents, food poisoning, exposure, heart attacks, lack of access to basic healthcare, and an epidemic of suicides - they all played a role. David Satter, a senior fellow at the anti-communist, Washington DC-based Hudson Institute, writing in the conservative Wall Street Journal, described the consequences of this victory of Democracy: "Western and Russian demographers now agree that between 1992 and 2000, the number of 'surplus deaths' in Russia - deaths that cannot be explained on the basis of previous trends - was between five and six million persons."

This secured Putin as a savior to Russians when he reversed it, and soured Russian public opinion to the US.

"Liberal order" visionaries are quick to give their ideas credit for the prosperity of nations from Western Europe to the Pacific Rim, finding causation in correlation. They deny such a direct link between their ideas and the problems of post-Soviet Russia. Yet it is hard to accept that measures like sudden privatization and the rise of monopolies in a corrupt country were not related to asset stripping and capital flight or that "eliminating the housing and utilities subsidies that sustained tens of millions of impoverished families" did not play a major part in the social ruin that followed. Western technocrats, diplomats, and politicians were deeply implicated in the new order's design.

If those that demand no Voter Identification were concerned for the poor, they'd facilitate the acquisition of ID, not seek ways to avoid it. After all, what's the best job you ever had where you didn't need to identify yourself?

Only ONE party disapproves of measures to make our elections secure, and also your president lied to you. Voter ID is NOT a function of America's "racist past". EVERY COUNTRY THAT'S not a dictatorship has some form of assuring that the person voting is entitled to. EVERY COUNTRY.

NAACP requires photo ID to attend anti-voter-ID protest march

Indian citizens have voter ID and they are buttfuck poor, much poorer than the worst of the American poor.

California liberals allege voter fraud, demand voter ID. Democrats think voter identification laws are important for their party elections, but think they're not important when it comes to our elections.

Maxine Waters, an advocate against voter ID, requires an ID to attend her town hall meeting.

Hillary Clinton's Book Tour. Valid Photo ID Required. Suppressing minority turnout, or is this one of those things that's OK when Democrats do it but wrong when anyone else does it?

Wall Street Journal you say? And the venerable New York Times? I'm sure you're fine then.

Oh look, imaginary value dropped. Sucks to be you.

When is the /. article for when Fuckerberg takes a shit?

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I can appreciate your concern, since the recent history with Skype and some other acquisitions left a bit of a bad taste, but this article from ArsTechnica suggests that Microsoft might have been the best option:

I understand that, but in the 90's Windows 3.1 was considered "the best option" for an operating system. Fortunately a lot of people didn't consider it an adequate option and chose not to settle.

The Microsoft of today is not the same Microsoft as in the days of Ballmer and Gates.

There are a few running memes over the history of Microsoft. One I never not tired of is someone popping up to assure the world that today's Microsoft is not same Microsoft that did all the bad things that earned them their unpleasant reputation. I don't pay enough attention to know if they are the same people who stick up for Microsoft when it's been discovered that they've added some new underhanded practice to their repertoire.

In many ways pigs are flying.

Of course they are.

https://i.redd.it/zs832f78ug21...

https://i.redd.it/5pg7pckqt621...

The spy-o-crats sure were happy when it was 99% sure and no need to look into anything.

Never mind H ran a terrible campaign, and most presidential elections are 48/48 with 4% of the voters picking the winner at the electoral college.

You don't think that non-progressives (aka conservatives) care about sexism/racism/homophobia/etc.? I wouldn't label all conservatives as bigots.

In the context of old TV shows? No. Because most conservatives don't subscribe to the progressive beliefs of intersectionality and identity politics, which makes a point that irregardless of circumstance it's still racist/sexist/etc and thus bad and in many cases should be banned. It's a lovely hive of authoritarianism. If you need a non-TV show example of that intersectionality and identity politics, go look at the current shitshow with progressives yelling that Candace Owens and Kanye West are uncle toms who are being "radicalized by the far-right" which one of the current narratives.

Remember when Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook conspired with the DNC to win the 2016 election? Wikileaks remembers.

https://i.redd.it/0iuspeqozzm01.jpg

9 years for a fatality on a US airline. Uncontained engine failures happen far more often than that.
Here's one that happened just 6 months ago.

https://i.redd.it/ux6xsnbc1em0...

The American right wing owns the media. OK. LOL! What, like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and all the rest? Those are all right wing? OK buddy, sure. I think you represent some kind of tiny splinter group that has zero traction. The Left is about sound economic policies? It's about borrow and spend to buy votes.

Right wing identity politics! OMG the Left invented identity politics and used it as a club to beat the crap out of us. It worked, too. They encouraged the BLM riots and cheered as people were attacked and neighborhoods burned. They encourage and PAID thugs to attack Trump supporters at rallies. They celebrated paid goons and Antifa shutting down free speech. America is more divided than ever, and the Left is at the forefront of it all.

I always loved this:
https://i.redd.it/ramn68p9csdz...

Look, using Facebook's personal data on people isn't that big a deal. It's what Facebook *does*. Carol Davidsen, Obama's campaign media director made a TED Talk about what the Democrats did in 2012. They pulled in the entire Facebook social network for the USA into their database. The talk is here. She says that Facebook gave the Democrats special treatment "because they were on our side". Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook worked with the DNC to win the 2016 election for Hillary. As for Trump,he discontinued using Cambridge Analytica's data, instead relying on the more accurate RNC data. So this whole thing is a nothingburger.

I think the whole thing is about tarring Zuckerberg so he can't run for President in 2020. Zuck for Prez? Not as crazy as it sounds. He's been spotted making the rounds doing silly things that no elite would be caught dead doing, like rubbing elbows with ordinary Americans fishing and attending baseball games. What other purpose than appealing to the masses? After the Bernie disaster, which was only averted by rigging the primary, and the even bigger Trump disaster, the last thing they need is yet another outsider barging in and thinking he can take away the best political plum there is. What, just because people vote for him? Don't be silly. That's not how The System is supposed to work.

Making things worse for straight white men is a major goal of feminism. It's not that feminism creates misandry. Feminism promotes, endorses, reinforces, organizes and aggrandizes misandry, but it does not generate it outright. A woman who is not antipathetic towards men will not become so upon exposure to feminist thought. More likely, she will recoil at its odious philosophy. Feminism simply provides a space for women and men who were already misandrically-inclined to congregate and make plans. And those plans harm men - regret is now rape.

To everyone calling bullshit:

This really happens, but it is assumed that Microsoft is doing some kind of A/B testing, similar to when they roll out updates:

I've never seen it happen on my PC (besides Candy Crush, which I could easily delete), but on two completely fresh / no MS Account Windows 10 Installs at my in-laws. The following games kept getting downloaded and reinstalled. It was really without user intervention on a completely fresh machine.

https://i.redd.it/5uvjgiyc7l50...

It amounted to roughly 1,2GB traffic on a 4mbit connection. Only disabling cloud content via registry allowed this to stop. Uninstall led to reinstall.

Also, the Democrat operatives started calling it a nothing-burger immediately after it was released.

Immune to olive branch? WTF? The USA totally screwed over Russia after the Cold War. Launched NATO expansion, ringed Russia with hostile bases, and interfered in the 1996 election, causing that drunk idiot Yeltsin to damage Russia even further. Here's TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.

However wrong in reasoning Damore may have been, why wasn't his thesis simply rejected in a rational discourse by those who know the matter or took the time to research it?

Maybe you can say that his bringing the point in the first place, however measured, betrays his hostility and distrust towards the policies pushed by the management. But that is often the case in argumentation. If you know you are right you respond to such in a measured way. Judging from the reaction, a nerve was hit which inflamed emotions that made people on the other side blind with rage. That it wasn't one or two crazy folks but many shows that something is deeply wrong within Google.

Which I wouldn't care about, it's Google's thing, if Google weren't the most powerful company on earth shaping the public opinion and perception of reality. This is shit we need to know about.

You are a scientist, how do you react to this internal Google post (part of Damore's filing, Exhibit B):

"I Google'd 'Big Five Personality Differences Male Female' (psych terminology) and nearly every top result backed the offensive claims of Neuroticism and Agreeableness (mean not absolute) differences by gender. Is Search wrong? Should we link to academic finds that may support incorrect stereotypes?"
https://i.redd.it/zxlp6gea8490...

Do you want Google to decide for you what Truth is?

Going by the court filing Google engaged in systemic oppression against groups of people, particularly white males, and males in general. There's also a whole laundry list of shit out of the filing including giving monetary bonuses to employees who publicly argued against Damore. A google SRE director arguing to censor speech of particular groups of people. The operation of a internal blacklist against employees hindering advancement. Arguing that by engaging in racism against whites, they're encouraging diversity. Using company resources to fund, recruit, and push people into joining ANTIFA and creating blacklists of people who refused to play along. HR arguing that we should fire people based on accusations, not proof.

You can read the entire docket yourself, it's worth the time.

very telling and accurate: the retarded rollercoaster

Who else here remembers the 1996 Russian elections? I do. Putin does. Everyone in Russia does. How is it that Americans don't remember? Here's a quick refresher, from Time magazine:

The outcome was by no means inevitable. Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret. For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign.

Time was so proud of getting that drunk Yeltsin elected that it ran its cover bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election. Yep. This happened.

Yeltsin sent troops into a quagmire in Chechnya, his economic reform programs resulted in widespread poverty and misery, and he had little respect for the law. He was a bad choice for Russia. He colluded with a hostile foreign power to get elected, something Americans have forgotten but Russians never will.

CNN does a pretty good job scaring people. A man produced a short video making fun of them, and when Trump retweeted it, they threatened him into silence. They forced him to apologize, delete all his social media posts, and forever remain silent under pain of being doxxed.This happened. Their confession is right here. This wasn't some mafia don, CNN did this. It wasn't just to silence the offender, but to pre-emptively silence anyone else from attempting to mock CNN, as stated in their confession. Honestly I don't know how they got away with it without being prosecuted. Yes, they can be very scary.

You can put that "New York Times was not reporting false news or outright lies" idea to bed because they absolutely do. Why don't you hear about this all the time? It's huge news when they do it, and they do it often.

They lied about Tesla car. "When the facts didn't suit his opinion, he simply changed the facts," Musk wrote. A Times spokeswoman reiterated that its story was "fair and accurate."

Last year, 35% of colleges saw international student numbers go up, 26% saw no change, and 39% saw them go down. New York Times publishes this with the headline "Amid Trump Effect Fear, 40% of Colleges See Dip in Foreign Applicants"

Glenn Thrush, the former senior staff writer at Politico who found himself in hot water when a WikiLeaks dump in October revealed that he ran an article by Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta prior to publishing, thought the Georgia results were lackluster. Thrush is now a political correspondent for The New York Times.

"We don't want to hear anything - we've long said this about this about the Right - but I think the Left, we don't - I'm not 'we,' I'm a journalist - but the Left as a rule does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement."
http://www.newsbusters.org/blo...

New York Times says Trump's tweets incite violence, yet published an image of Stephen Miller's severed head on a pike.

The same people criticizing Trump for his WWE tweet had no problem with the New York Times sponsoring a play that depicted Trump's assassination.

New York Times lies about Trump's almost 40% figure

New York Times quotes a fake twitter account, publishes fake news.

The New York Times Misquoted Trump's Charlottesville Remarks In Five Different Reports

A New York Times reporter called Melania a hooker and they wouldn't even release the name of the reporter that said it, let alone fire her.

"Without your help," a beaming Fidel Castro said while nodding at Herbert Matthews during a visit to The New York Times's offices in April 1959, almost exactly a year after he'd visited Marquez-Sterling, "and without the help of the New York Times, the revolution in Cuba would never have been."

"Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
--Source: New York Times

An act of war, gosh that's lovely. Hillary really got to you people, didn't she? She was all ready for a big shooting war with Russia until she neglected to get votes in critical states. Oops, turns out you have to actually win the election first. So instead we got widespread hysteria and Red Scare Part II and everyone is looking under their beds for TEH ROOSHINS.

So all it took was 3,000 Facebook ads to swing the elections, who would have thought the Russians was this great at propaganda. $100,000 to defeat Hillary Clinton's $1,200,000,000. The whole narrative has become so ridiculously twisted. Replace 'Russia' with 'Britain', and the story would be about how an allied whistleblower uncovered the shocking story of the Democratic primary being rigged. Where's the outrage about that?

That Russia has wanted, and has tried to encourage, the breakup of the U.S. for decades is not news (Igor Panarin has very publicly made a career out of it). And buying ads to exacerbate the existing divisions hardly seems like an act of war or anything.

Russia's big "crime" was that they exposed wrongdoing of certain people within the DNC. As in, Russia exposed people circumventing the democratic process. Think about it: for all the brouhaha, by exposing that sort of thing they were actually *helping* strengthen democracy in the US. LOL! Down is up! Up is down!

Now I don't for a moment believe their motivations were pure or pro-US in any way, but it's so absurd to talk about all their evil meddling when the main thing they did was reveal the foul play that was already going on. Sheesh. Especially when we did it first: turnabout is fair play. Here's TIME magazine in 1996 bragging about how we interfered in the Russian election.

Pretending that it's somehow equal is totally wrong. The Left utterly banished opposing opinions from the airwaves. It got so bad that conservative opinions retreated all the way to AM radio, a terrible ghetto, to be heard. I mean, come on, AM radio? It's a wonder that it still exists, and I had that thought 30 years ago. Then Murdoch started his Fox news, but what else? Prior to the rise of citizen journalism on Youtube, there was hardly anything but tame, controlled opposition which would be allowed to say something non-controversial and then refuted by the two other talking heads and the hosts.

The recent election was the tipping point, when the mask came off and the mainstream media became a partisan force, one dedicated to the cause of electing Hillary Clinton, who we now have hard proof in the form of a confession from her campaign manager, that she was utterly corrupt. The New York Times, after its completely biased coverage, said that "We believe we reported on both candidates fairly during the presidential campaign", a statement breathtaking in its nearsightedness. Here's a leaked email showing how the Dems colluded with the press. Glenn Thrush of Politico was exposed seeking Podesta's approval of articles about Clinton. Even Thrush wrote "please don't tell anyone" and "I'm such a hack". The consequences for Thrush? He was hired by the New York Times after the election. How can you have any sympathy with these organizations that threaten people into silence with threats of doxxing? It's like the mafia. So let's drop the "both sides do it" thing because the power levels are not even remotely the same.